Motivational Quotes

Life

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

10.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

15.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

18.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

27.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

39.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

40.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

43.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace